Wooden Trash Bin

We have quite slight free place in our kitchen, but I wanted to eliminate the mass we produce with a selective trash collecting. So we needed a trash bin which is slim enough to put it next to the wall and able to collect plastic and paper waste separately.

The design is quite simple, it just a simple box with removable top.

In the inside there are small hooks to hang plastic bag and hold the waste.

Wooden Salt Holder

I made a salt holder for my mother as a gift. The design was quite simple, but still nicer than her old plastic one.

It was made of a piece of pear wood which was cut out from her garden last year. Firstly I cut a block of wood and than saw around the shape. Then I shaped to the final form with chisels and carving knifes. At the end it was sanded and covered with oil. It was not too complicated and can be done within some hours.

Salad Spoons

After my previous spoon and the paddle I realized that these kind of things are not really usable, at least nowadays, and I don't have place for them in my flat, because they are not really in harmony with the style of it. I wanted to make something more useful and usable thing.

My girlfriend is a vegetarian and she would be pleased with a pair of salad spoons, so I had the plan. I just needed some material to do it. I had only some soft wood for carving, but those were not good for everyday usage, I wanted some harder wood. I remembered that last year my parents, who are living on the countryside, had cut down some bigger branches from their nut tree and these branches are just drying under a roof and waiting to be burnt . So I thought some of them would be good for this task. Next time when I visited them, I checked these branches and I found a trunk which can provide me a pair of spoons. I cut into two pieces and draw the design of the spoons on the wood. With a jigsaw I cut the shape of the spoons following the lines and with knives I carved to the final shape. At the end I sanded them and covered with some paraffin oil.